section 8

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Noun

section 8 (countable and uncountable, plural section 8s)

  1. (US, informal) Federally subsidized housing for low-income families and individuals, formally known as the Housing Choice Voucher Program.
  2. (US, military) Discharge from the United States military for reason of being mentally unfit for service.
    • 1983 December 31, James L. Zipper, “Happy To Be Me”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 13:
      By the time got out of the service I was tuly a broken man. The constant threat of the stockade or a section eight (undesireable discharge for being gay) drove me to the verge of insanity.
    1. (US, military) A person so discharged.

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